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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-03-09
SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.
Noodful Obssrvanccs Which no Lady or
Gentleman VIII Neglect.

Noodful Observ0nCoS Which NO L1dy or
Gentleman WIN Neglect.
A young married couple, who had
been most favorably received by the
best society of the town where they be-
gan housekeeping, were surprised
when, in year or more, the interest
of their little world, in regard to them,
had apparently ceased. They received
no invitations, and their card-basket
was no longer habitually filed. What
could be the reason? It simply lay in
the fact that, being unconventional by
nature, and careless by training, they
had been too unceremonious in their
treatment Of their acquaintance.
They were absorbed in each others SO.
ciety, and it was an effort to think OF
the outside world. Consequently, al
though they were well pleased at re-
ceiving calls, they often postponed re.
running them for months, and some
times neglected going at all. hoping.
meantime, that people would "call
again"
Ihere are certain ODServanceS winch
the person who desires to rank with
ladies and gentlemen will not neglect.
The rules of etiquette are not merely
arbitrary; as q general thing, they are
founded upon convenience or kindli-
ness. To return the first call of
stranger without delay is to express
ones appreciation of his kindness in
paying the visit. Replying to an In
vitation Immediately on receiving it.
enables the sender to make definite
plans, and is, moreover, suitable dis
| play Of gratitude for the attention. To
express ones thanks for gift, when it
must be done by letter, without allow
ing one mail to intervene, is to make
practical demonstration Of ne's pleas
ure in having receivedit. There never
yet was social occasion in which
promptitude failed be virtue, except,
perhaps, in the case Of English dinner
parties, where the guest is expected to
arrive after the specified hour.
Many people are both ignorant OF
conventional rules and careless by
nature; but casual acquaintance can
not be expected to make allowances for
them, on account of these disabilities.
The offenders against the rules Of soci-
ETY. will, on the contrary, probably be
classified as rude or ''odd," and, in any
case, undesirable acquaintance. The
habit Of being ION time and cup to
| the mark is more easily cultivated in
| youth than when the routine Of life has
become firmly fixed. The boy or Cir
who is alive to the demands Of Others
will become, later in life, polite BY
nature; since good habits, fortunately
may become mechanical, as well as bad
cues. YOUTHS Companion.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-03-09
New Definition Of Bore.

DeKaggs Il don't like Jupkins; he is
a confounded bore.
DeBaggs- Il never knew he was talkac
tive.
DeKaggs-You don't know him. |
talked to him about three hours last
night, and he interrupted me at least
four times. II PHILADELPHIA Can.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-03-09

The man who puts up a barbed-
wire fence in Nebraska is responsible
for any damages sustained by men or
animals coming in contact with it.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-03-09
Living in Peace.

In all things tending to make
the colored people better men
and women, better citizens; in all
things tending to inspire them with
higher views of their duties as citizens,
friends and neighbors, to fit them for
the position in which the destruction Of
slavery placed them unprepared; in all
things calculated to secure to them that
equality before the law claimed and ex-
ercised by their white brethren, the
Gazette has endeavored to perform it's
duty, and shall SO continue to the end.
The two races are fellow citizens; their
interests are identical; neither can re-
ceive benefit or injury that does not
affect the other. They should live to-
gether in peace and happiness; and
that the bonds of peace and harmony
will steadily grow stronger is the hope
of every man who has at heart the we'll
being of his race. Little Rock Gazette.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-03-09
-Postmaster-Genera Villas W

Postmaster-General Villas was
made the target Of abuse by some Of
the more rabid Republican organs be-
cause he refused to be bulIdozed and
dictated to by the Pacific mail lobby.
His firmness won in the end and
brought the recusant companies to
terms. The British postal department
has initiated his example Of firmness in
breaking the monopoly that restricted
the transatlantic mails. The mail for
New York will now leave on four days
in the week and the day Of monopoly
in that line is past albany argus.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-03-09

Geese are great grazers, and will
eat almost as much as cow.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24
NOTES FROM LONDON.
An American Actress in TrOuble-Tennyso
Recovering-Steamer Damaged.

An American Actress in TrOuble-Tennyson
observation-disclosures Damaged.
LONDON, Feb. 19.-Fay Templeton was
to-day dismissed from the Gaiety Theater
by George Edwards, the proprietor, for
neglecting to comply with the rules and
regulations of the establishment Miss
Templeton at once procured an ad in
term injunction, restr3 ming the manage
ment from employing any one to play her
part in Monte Cristo, Jr., the piece on the
boards at the Gaiety, or from preventing
her from acting her part.
The French steamer Burgundia, while
leaving Naples for New York with S34 pas
sengers was struck amidships by spur of
the man-of-war Italia, and so badly
damaged that the captain beached her to
prevent her sinking. Her main and after
hold are full of water.
Festivities in commemoration of the
Queens jubilee were held in Madras yes
terday and to-day
Lord Tennyson is recovering from his re
cent illness. He will start for the Riviera
on Tuesday next.
The Standards Vienna correspondent
telegraphs: II am assured, on good author
Ity, that Germany will shortly demand that
France pledge herself to remain neutral in
the event of war with Eastern Europe"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24
CANADA.

american Gold" Alleged to be Influencing
Elections-The Fishery Question.
New YORK, Feb. ia Toronto, Ont,
special says: THE charges against the re-
form party of Canada of receiving thou
sands of dollars from Americans TO buy up
the country and defeat Sir John MacdOn-
AIDS Government, is here repeated by the
Standard, Sir Johns organ. The substance
of the charges made is as follows: That
the sum of $4,000 was received from the
iron men in Pittsburgh, Pa, by Toronto
financial agents of the reform party over
ten days ago; that more money from
the same place, for the same purpose,
is now on its way TO Toronto; that
American money sent to Montreal to de-
feat Sir John has fallen into the hands of
the Conservatives; that Nova Scotia is be-
ing flooded with American money for the
same purpose; that a, 600 has been sub
scribed to the reform campaign fund TO de-
feat the Conservative Government, to de-
stroy the national policy, by DisstOn & Sons,
saw-makers, of Philadelphia, firm which
once nearly controlled the Canadian trade
in their class of goods. The STANDARD says
to Canadians: You have not only to face
the rapacious horde of reformers, Rielites,
repealers, secessionists and rebels at home,
but you have to contend against the gold of
Michigan lumbermen. Pennsylvania iron
men, New York and Massachusetts cotton
men and New England tiShermen.'n
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24
THE MINT.
The Director of the Mint Enters His Pro-
test Against Reductions Made by the
House Appropriations Committed.

The Director of the Mint Enters HIS Pro-
test Against Reductions Made by the
House Appropriations Committee.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-A communication
from the DirectSc of the Mint was yester-
day transmit + to the House protesting
against reductions made in the estimates
for the mint service by the Appropriations
Committee. OF the failure of the committee
to provide for the operation of the Carson
City mint as an assay Office, the director,
having expressed his views to the commit
tee on the subject. has nothing to say, but
with reference to all other mints he de-
clares that the estimates were made for
the smallest appropriations consistent with
their business in each, without reduction
of salaries, which, he says, it is
we'll known are not such as can be rea-
sonably made, especially under the cir
cumstances that they are for services with.
out exception more or less of an expert
character, and are at the lowest point con-
sistent with skill accuracy and fidelity in a
work where these are indispensable requis-
ties The Director takes up cases of
insufficient appropriations in detail, be-
ginning with the mint at Denver, Col.
Here, he states, only one-third of
the amount estimated as absolutely
requisite for the operation Of the mint on
its present basis has been made, while
there is every reason to suppose that the
deposits will be largely in excess during
the next year as compared with those in
previous years. Concerning the assay Office
at Boise City, the Director points to the
fact that its business has more than
doubled during the past year, and says that
the appropriations made by the committee
will be inadequate for the support of the
assay Office without closing it to depositors
toward the close of the fiscal year. In the
case of the assay Office at Helena, attention
is called Ito the fact that the deposits
have increased from 1851, 900 to 81, Isl, 900
during the past two years, and that the
committee has reduced the appropriation
for its support, in the face of recommend
tion for an increase of compensation to
employees. The item for wages of workmen
at the New York assay Office was reduced
by 5000. The Director says that no such
reduction can be made without impairing
the efficiency of the office in very impor-
tant field of work, where, indeed, it would
be more extensively and seriously felt than
in anv other branch of the service.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

REV. DR.. TALNAGE announces that a SER
mon, purporting to have been delivered by
him Sunday, February 13, entitled Fraud
Detected" and on the text Numbers
xxxii. 32' is bogus. He never preached
from that text and never uttered word of
the sermon.
ATToRSEY-GESERAL GARLAND has decided
that the fencing of contiguous corners of
sections Of railroad lands, so as to prevent
the passage of settlers upon Government
sections, is unlawful.
THE life of Governor Richardson, of South
Carolina, was endangered recently by a
negro madman who demanded money or
blood. On the negro being arrested loaded
revolver was found on his person.
THE President has nominated Captain
A. W. Greely as Chief Signal Officer with
the rank of Brigadier General.
PROF. VIRCHOw, in the course Of a speech
to the electors of the Second Berlin circle,
denounced the Vatican's interference as
coercion to the Catholic electors, which all
German should resent
THE British House of Commons refused
to entertain motion for an inquiry into the
administration Of the crofter districts.
THE President has vetoed the bill appro-
priating money for the distribution of seeds
in the drouth-stricken counties of Texas.
THE Senate Committee has inserted the
Cullom amendment with respect to the
Hennepin canal in the River and Harbor
bill as reported to the Senate. The total
appropriation recommended is $40 3S5, 800.
GENERAL KAULBARs has been appointed
military attache to the Russian embassy at
Teheran, the capital of Persia.
AN influential meeting at Leicester, Eng,
has indorsed the action of the silver party
at Washington and unanimously adopted a
resolution declaring that nothing short OF
free coinage Of silver would support prices
in the interest of the debtor classes.
THE address in reply to the Queens
speech was adopted by the British Parlia-
ment on the 18th by 2S3 to 90.
IT is reported in st. Petersburg that two
naval officers recently arrested for con-
spiracy against the Government have been
executed.
THE Arkansas Senate has passed law
forbidding the giving of free railroad passes
FIVE alleged fraud workers in last No
vemberSs election in St Louis were arrested
on the 18th. Two were clerks and three
repeaters.
THE Swiss Government has seized nihil-
ist printing Office in Geneva, together with
large lot of type and pamphlets.
SENATOR SAWYER proposes to amend the
General Deficiency bill by giving 800 and
| 60 days rations 10 all colored adults emf
grating to Africa.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24

RICHMOND, KY, Feb. Isl. B. Parkes, a
substantial farmer living near Kingston,
this (Madison) county has successfully
trained force of seven large monkeys to
work in the hemp fields and to break and
prepare the hemp for the market. They do
the work quieter and better than the Ie-
groes he formerly employed and at about
one-fourth the cost. 1t required about four
months of patient work to train the ami
mails, but they now do their tasks with
rare intelligence. The monkeys were sent
to Mr. Parkes by brother, who is in busi-
ness in Cape Town, South Africa. and who
had seen the animals put to similar uses
there. Mr.. Parkes has sent for ten more
of the useful imitators of human workmen,
six of them to be used by John q. Taylor, a
ncighboring farmer, who is also an exten.
siVe raiser of hemp.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24
STORM IN COLORADO.
Three Railroad Trains Blown From tn
Track-Sarrow Escape OF Loss of Life.

Three Railroad Trains Blown From the
Track-Sarrow Escape OF Loss of life.
DENVER, Col, Feb. 1S.-A light wind
storm set in over the entire eastern portion
Of Colorado at ten o'clock Wednesday
night, but its velocity steadily increased
till four O'Clock yesterday morning when
the gale reached sixty miles an hour
and continued till the afternoon. In Denver
many buildings were unroofed, smoke
stacks, chimneys, telephone and telegraph
poles leveled to the ground and plate glass
windows broken, causing loss Of several
thousand dollars. Outside of Denver the
casualties reported are considerably
greater than in the city On the Denver &
Rio Grsnde railway, four miles north Of
Colorado Springs, every coach OF the north
bound Salt Lake express, consisting of two
sleepers, two passenger coaches, a baggage
and mail car, were blown from the track
and the mail car with its contents de-
stroyed by fire. Had the accident hap
pened sooner on q high embankment q
short distance ahead the loss of life would
have been great, but fortunately the ground
was perfectly level and no one was injured.
A freight train of sixty cars, side-tracked
near by, waiting for the express to pass,
was also derailed by the wind and badly
damaged 4 passenger train Of three
coaches on the Denver & South Park road,
which left the Union Depot for Morrison at
eight O'Clock, was lifted from the track by
terrific blast and hurled down a ten foot
embankment when about twelve miles from
the city. One passenger had leg broken
and several others were badly bruised.
Near Como, on the same road, the Lead
vile express was blown over a bridge and
nearly all the passengers and trainmen Sc
verely wounded and the coaches badly
wrecked. All incoming trains on the various
roads are from five to ten hours late on ac-
count Of the storm.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24

Mrs. LANGTRY has been telling some
of the freaks of Joaquin Miller, when
the poet of the Sierras was in the height
of his nOtoriety in London. He wrote
n poem in her honor and called it THE
Lily" A few days after its publication
Miller approached Mrs. Langtry at a
large reception. and, after paying his
respects, bowed himself backward out
of the room, and as he retreated
strewed rose leaves, which he had
crammed into his trousers pockets, on
the floor. At that time Miller, she
says, appeared in public in ared flannel
shirt and top-boots.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24
A DEFAUITER.
A Penitentiary Warden in a Fair Way to
Don the Stripes.

"A a
Don the Stripes.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 19.-Last week
a committee from the State Senate, the
majority being composed of Democrats,
visited the southern penitentiary at Jeffer-
sonville and made an inspection and investi-
cation. They reported many irregularities
in Warden Howard's methods. The tenor
of the report was taken to indicate that
they would recommend his dismissal. A
few days ago committee from the House
of Representatives. majority of which is
composed of Republicans to Jeffer-
sonville and commenced a searching in
Quiry. The revelations made up to
yesterday caused one member of the
committee to express the belief
that Warden Howard would be dismissed
as soon as possible after the report of
the committee had been read and action
taken, but no one was prepared for the
startling disclosures made to-day. When
the Senate Committee made their investi-
cation, they demanded that the money be-
longing to the State be shown them, and
after some demurring Howard sent to a
bank and g, 900 was brought to the commit
tee, the members of which were informed
that it was the States money.
The House Committee discovered that of
this $4,000 not one dollar belonged either
to the State or to the warden. Seven thou
sand of the money was borrowed from
friends for the occasion and 5000 of it was
a certificate of deposit which Howard OBJ
tanned from life convict named Saunders,
on promise to secure him pardon. Dep
uty Auditor of State Coons has been inves-
tigating Howard's books, and finds that his
accounts are short for a large sum-how
much can not yet be stated-but the amount
will. it is thought, range between S60,0OO
and $50, 0,0O0.
Howard rendered his resignation
which was accepted by the board
of directors. The steward and the dlrec-
tors of the prison are implicated and the
State will be unable to recover any of the
money for the reason that the directors en-
tertained very high opinion Of Howard's
honesty and allowed him TO act as warden
without giving bond. Howard is under sur
veillance by detectives, and some of his
friends are also keeping watch on him,
fearing that he will commit suicide. He is
a brother of Congressman Jonas G. How
ard, and has been warden of the southern
prison since 1875.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24
WARLiKE ITALIANS.
Striking Italians Make 1t Lively for Massa-
chusetts Officers.

Striking Italians Make 1t Lively for Massa-
chusetts Officers.
WARE, Mass, Feb. IA warrant was
issued last night for the arrest of Salvador
Pignalosa, one of the striking Italian rail-
road labOrers who marched to this village
yesterday and compelled other Italians to
stop work and join them. To-day the
authorities were on their way to the Italian
quarters to serve the warrant when they
met the full force of the strikers, headed
by Pignalosa, marching under an Italian
flag and armed with clubs, revolvers and
guns. The officers rushed at Pignalosa and
were fired upon by two Italians. Deputy
Sheriff Henry o. Caryl and Police
Officer Loranas Fisherdeck returned
the fire, and the Italians fed in all
directions, leaving one of the men,
Mickilel Lavoro, badly wounded on the
street. He was removed to the town,
where the ball was probed for but not
found. The doctor thinks that it is i'm
bedded in one of the bones of the back
He believes Lavoro is not fatally wounded,
but the Catholic priest, Father Boyle,
thinks he can not recover. Special con-
stables were sworn in and the country was
secured for Pignalosa, who was found in
the woods armed with revolver and cap
tured. He is now in jail charged with in
citing riot. 1t is feared that there will be
a general strike of Italians all along the
line of the road from Ware to Northampton.
1t is also feared that when the news of the
shooting of Lavoro spreads to the other
camps the men will seek revenge and the
authorities are taking steps to prevent an
outbreak OF violence If possible.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24
SHOOTING AND LYNCHING.
A Mob Avenges the Shooting of a Texa
Deputy sheriff bY a Negro.

A Mob Avenges the Shooting of a Texas
Deputy Sheriff by Negro.
NARAsoTA, Tex. Feb. 1S.-InfOrmatiOD
reached this city this morning Of the shoot
ing and mortally wOunding last Monday
of Deputy Sheriff Upchurch by brutal
negro named Jim Richards, at Bedias, in
the eastern portion of this county, thirty
miles from here, near the Madison County
line. Upchurch had Richards under arrest
on a charge Of theft, and the latter, watch
ing his opportunity, jerked Upchurch's
pistol, a large navy six, from its
scabbard and inflicted the fatal
wound, the ball entering his
bowels, passing entirely through the
body, ranging downward and coming out
below the thigh. The victim is stIll alive,
but the physicians pronounce the wound
fatal. Richards was knocked down and
captured by parties present and placed un-
der guard. News of the unprovoked and
dastardly crime spread through the county
like wildfre. Indignation among the
friends Of Upchurch increased as rapidly
as the news was told, and about sundown
Monday evening over seventy-five masked
men armed to the teeth took Richards from
the custody of the guards and swung him
to a neighbOring tree. Upchurch was
good officer and stood high wherever known,
and has wife and child.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24
Fatality to an Aged Couple.

CLEVELAND, o., Feb ia special from
Wooster, o., says: John Baughman, aged
eighty-seven, and his wife, eighty-fve, a
wealthy couple living in Dalton, this coun-
ty, met with a horrible fate early this
morning. The house was discovered to be
on fire at one o'clock by the neighbors, who
burst open the doors and found the aged
couple in an asphyxiated state. The old
man was dragged out dead, the wife still
living, though not as yet resuscitated, and
it is said that she can not recover. Hon.
John Baughman, of Wooster, the Wayne
County Representative in the Legislature,
is the only son Of the aged couple. The
fire is supposed to have originated from the
explosion of lamp"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24
A Worried Sfan.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1S.-The increasing
lack of high discipline in the Knights Of
Labor and the failure Of the various dis
trict assemblies to keep close to the sug-
gestIons Of the general master workman
and his board have made POwderly feel
anxious and worried all his lieutenants. 1t
is now certain that Powderly and his
executive aids will soon direct their atten-
tion to curing these troubles. Most OF
them exist the worst in the West, and most
Of all in Chicago. Powderly said yester-
day that his views on the subject Of boy
colts were well known, and also OF the
members of the executive board, who de-
clared that the boycotts against Phil Ar
mour and others in Chicago were totally
unauthorized
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-24

ACCORDING to Engineering, the Rus
sian Government has decided, ION ac-
count of financial difficulties" to sane
ton no railways for construction for
1887. Those railways that are in hand
will be continued, but no additions
will oe made to their number and no
extra grants supplied. Yet, says the
journal named, the Government is
aware that the suspension of railway
construction will not only deepen the
depression in the grain trade, but also
involve the iron trade. The condi-
ton of affairs as given is this: Russia,
with her swollen ornaments, has little
left for public works, and, therefore,
sells dear corn,, while the American
and the English colonies, having no
armies to support, can spend large
sums on railways, etc., and in consG-
puence sell their corn cheaply."